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Such a Miscalculation. Soviet spokesmen could rant & rave; they had plenty of time for it. The prolongation of Europe's plight played into Communist hands. This was the level where the Soviet Union was well equipped-the ideological level, where Communism feeds on misery and despair. So the inevitable question arose: "What does the U.S. do next...
...Jews, with a golden opportunity to present their case to the world, were split into rival groups, each demanding to be Jewry's voice before the Assembly. (The Jewish Agency, principal champion of Jewish rights in the Holy Land, refused to be mere observers at the session; its spokesmen stayed away pending decision on their request to be treated as a voteless delegation.) On one point the delegates seemed unhappily agreed: the stored bitterness of 25 years of Palestine troubles would be freely poured out in the General Assembly...
Here in Cambridge, the University's chapter of the American Veterans Committee took steps to offer relief to the 9,000 veterans at Harvard whose budgets would be hard hit by the V. A. failure. AVC spokesmen declared, however, that first consideration would be given where the need was greatest, and no policy of blanket loans was anticipated...
Organized labor wailed in agony. William Green had declared: "Hartley will be classified as one of labor's chief enemies." C.I.O. spokesmen called the measure "a poisonous witches' brew." Old New Dealers in Congress echoed them...
...began when the medicos formed a "Committee of 100" to sponsor a mild bill which would permit a doctor to give birth-control information to a patient whose health or life might be endangered by pregnancy. Roman Catholic spokesmen promptly opposed it. But the doctors had some unprecedented support: the Hartford Courant, first major Connecticut newspaper ever to come out on their side, 500 ministers, an Elmo Roper poll which showed that 85% of the state's citizens (including 75% of its Roman Catholics) favored the bill in principle...